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Post by Cams on Dec 29, 2021 16:26:45 GMT
Please join me in wishing my SCGC Vintage Artist a very happy 15th birthday! She arrived at my flat in Luxembourg 15 years ago this very day. I just spent a rather delightful hour playing an old blues tune that I learned around that time from Little Brother and had since forgotten, Mississippi John Hurt's Candy Man. The guitar came to me through a friend of mine who is no longer with us, Kelvyn Evans, from South Wales. At the time he was a SCGC dealer in Hawaii. He kindly put a certificate into a prize draw at Little Brother's Acoustic Jam in Georgia, USA in 2005. The certificate entitled the winner to buy any SCGC guitar at cost, with no mark up at all on Kelvyn's part. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to figure out how a mahogany dread would fit into my world, because I'd never played a good one and I had just gone onto Kim Walker's list. I figured that I could easily sell it with little or no loss if it turned out that I wasn't a mahogany dread guy, and then I would know. It turns out that I am indeed a mahogany dread guy! Selling it has never even crossed my mind. I've since added another mahogany dread to my home, a Martin D-18GE sunburst, and of all the guitars at the last Halifax gathering, it's Martin 's Bourgeois that still haunts me! When I was coming up with the spec, I got to meet Richard Hoover in Frankfurt and talk over tonewoods with him. He promised me some special Sitka that they called 'grey ghost' and some really nicely-figured, old-growth mahogany by way of saying thank you for my being an admin on the SCGC Players Guitar Forum. SCGC Vintage Artist by Cams, on Flickr (Arrival day, 2006) Happy 15th Birthday! by Cams, on Flickr Figured mahogany - photo by Little Brother by Cams, on Flickr
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Post by Phil Taylor on Dec 29, 2021 16:57:25 GMT
That mahogany is gorgeous
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Post by Welshruss on Dec 29, 2021 21:44:48 GMT
Nice one Cams. I miss Little Brother’s lessons and forum, I learned allot through him.
I have two SCGC 00-12’s. My first one is similar specs to yours, Stika top and great mahogany back and sides. I bought it used ten years ago and I’ve played it allot. 2 years ago I got it refretted and the top cleated and it plays and sounds even better.
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Post by Cams on Dec 29, 2021 21:56:42 GMT
Nice one Cams. I miss Little Brother’s lessons and forum, I learned a lot through him. I have two SCGC 00-12’s. My first one is similar specs to yours, Stika top and great mahogany back and sides. I bought it used ten years ago and I’ve played it a lot. 2 years ago I got it refretted and the top cleated and it plays and sounds even better. I miss LB too. I haven't spoken to him in a few years now. The last jam was 10 years ago. I found a bunch of his video lessons still on my hard drive so I was able to get Candy Man going again pretty quickly. It's been really fun!
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Post by Martin on Dec 29, 2021 22:12:40 GMT
Beautiful instrument
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Post by grayn on Dec 30, 2021 7:24:14 GMT
Gorgeous guitar, I hope you have many more years together. I remember playing a 12-fret dread by Santa Cruz, many years ago, it was a real classic.
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